Chandigarh Group of Colleges
The Chandigarh Group of Colleges are the educational institutions located in the Mohali district of Punjab, near Chandigarh and Mohali. The CGC was established in 2001 at Landran and in 2012 at Jhanjeri.
Individual institutions
, CGC University Mohali, and Chandigarh University are part of the CGC. They are distinct institutions at different locations.
CGC Landran
CGC Landran, also known as Landran College, was created in 2001 under affiliation with I. K. Gujral Punjab Technical University. CGC Landran offers technical, pharmaceutical, management, arts, and science courses. Landran is an urbanized village with links to Sohana, Kharar, and Banur, three towns and villages in Mohali.
Campus activities and sports
CGC campus students have the opportunity to be a part of different cultural events like fashion shows, faculty felicitation, the NASA-sponsored CanSat competition, Ministry of [Human Resource Development|MHRD]'s Smart India Hackathon events, Start up to Scale Up conferences, National [Cadet Corps (India)|NCC] best cadet, Faculty Development Programmes apart from annual Techno cultural Fests. CGC students also participate in many sports tournaments and competitions such as Volleyball, Wrestling, weightlifting, power lifting, and best physique championships.
CGC University Mohali
In 2012, CGC Jhanjeri, now CGC University Mohali, was initiated as a technical campus. It currently runs under administration in Jhanjeri, a village between Mohali and Sirhind-Fategarh.
CGC Gharaun was initiated in 2009. The University Grants Commission gave it university status in 2012. It is now known as Chandigarh University.
Placements
In 2017, 457 multinational corporations, including Amazon, Microsoft, and HP, visited CGC Landran with 4900 placement offers. HP, Wipro, Cognizant, and IBM visited CGC University Mohali with more than 27 job offers. In 2018, the university was recognised as the best institution for placements in Punjab by Amarinder Singh, the Chief Minister of Punjab.
Research and development
CGC Landran is placed within the top ten Indian institutes by patents filed. CGC Landran has a memorandum of understanding with the National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology for entrepreneurship, research and developement projects, and training. The institute is a member of the artificial intelligence and deep learning project under the Newton Bhabha Fund, sanctioned by the UK's Royal Academy of Engineering. The college was granted by the Indian Council of Medical Research for the development of a nanotechnology-based lung cancer vaccine.
Ranking
CGC Landran was awarded the Aspiring Minds' National Employability Award in 2019 and placed within the top 50 engineering institutes according to a Times engineering survey. It was given an A++ rank in the Chronicle India's engineering college survey.